JoomlArt data breach: 22K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-11-01
In January 2018, the Joomla template website JoomlArt inadvertently exposed more than 22k unique customer records in a Jira ticket. The exposed data was from iJoomla and JomSocial, both services that JoomlArt acquired the previous year. The data included usernames, email addresses, purchases and passwords stored as MD5 hashes. When contacted, JoomlArt advised they were aware of the incident and had previously notified impacted parties. Exposed data: email addresses, names, passwords, payment histories, usernames. The breach dates from Jan 30, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Nov 1, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a JoomlArt account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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